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Fredric Jameson
Magisterial lectures on the major figures of French theory from 'America's leading Marxist critic'
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The giant of literary theory analyzes the novel: Conrad, James, Atwood, Oe, Mailer, Grass, Grossman, Garcia Marquez, Gibson, Knausgaard and more
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Jameson’s study of the cultural, political and social implications of postmodernism.
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Fredric Jameson is America’s leading Marxist critic. A prodigiously energetic thinker whose writings sweep majestically from Sophocles to science fiction. - Terry Eagleton
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Works do not have meanings, they soak up meanings: a work is a machine for libidinal investments (including the political kind). It is a process that sorts incommensurabilities and registers…
Mimesis, Expression, Construction brings Fredric Jameson's famous Duke University seminar on Adorno's Aesthetic Theory into print for the first time.
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In Signatures of the Visible, one of America’s most influential critics explores film and film culture through the relationship between the imaginative world on screen and the historical world onto…
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This ground-breaking and influential study explores the complex place and function of literature within culture. It takes its place as one of the most meaningful works of the twentieth century.
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The master of literary theory takes on the master of the detective novel
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Provides an introduction to one of the great Marxist thinkers of the 20th century.
A groundbreaking analysis of the nineteenth-century novel.
First published in 1961, Sartre: The Origins of a Style is a striking attempt not merely to analyze Sartre’s work formally, from an aesthetic perspective but above all to replace…
Adam Roberts (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
Widely recognised as one of today’s most important cultural critics, Adam Roberts offers an engaging introduction to this crucial figure, which will convince any student of contemporary theory that Jameson…
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Ian Buchanan (University of Wollongong, Australia)
Widely regarded as one of America’s most important cultural theorists, Fredric Jameson has been at the forefront of the field of literary and cultural studies since the early 1970s. This…
The contributors challenge accepted views of Jameson’s work and locate his project in the historical, political and institutional context that shaped it.
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Christopher Wise
The Marxian Hermeneutics of Fredric Jameson is the first comprehensive, book-length study of Jameson’s writings, from Marxism and Form (1971) through Postmodernism (1991). Wise begins his discussion by examining Jameson’s…
Professor Clint Burnham (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
An exploration of Fredric Jameson’s film theory and how it explicates Martin Scorsese’s film The Wolf of Wall Street –
Honore de Balzac
Me have that golden gown! A blameless girl and her monstrous relatives clash over love and money in Balzac’s matchless portrayal of greed in a French provincial town.
Robert T. Tally
A comprehensive guide to Jameson’s theoretical project and a convincing argument for the power of dialectical criticism to understand the world today.
Kheirallah Helichi
Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Literature - Basics, grade: none, language: English, abstract: This article tries to define literature according to Fredric Jameson methodology. Literature for Jameson…
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Fredric Jameson sweeps from the Renaissance to The Wire
Jameson’s classic study of German playwright Bertolt Brecht
The novels of Wyndham Lewis have generally been associated with the work of the great modernists - Joyce, Pound, Eliot, Yeats - who were his sometime friends and collaborators. This…
Radical rereading of Marx’s central work by the prolific cultural theorist and philosopher.
Fredric Jameson’s survey of Structuralism and Russian Formalism is, at the same time, a critique of their basic methodology. He lays bare the presuppositions of the two movements, clarifying the…
A comprehensive analysis of the philosophy of the dialectic by the doyen of cultural criticism.
Jameson’s first full-length engagement with Walter Benjamin’s work
A collection of theoretical essays which were composed under a particular set of constraints - the need to explain the Marxist intellectual tradition within the bounds of literary criticism -…
Part of Radical Thinkers series, this work presents key texts by philosophers and thinkers. It offers an introduction to the key writings on post modernism.
A major new interpretation of the concepts of modernism and modenirty
Offers the author’s insight into modernist literature and art. Serving as a companion to the classic, A Singular Modernity , this title looks at the innovative literary experiments of Joyce…
Investigates the development of the Utopian form since Thomas More, and interrogates the functions of Utopian thinking in a post-Communist age. This book also explores the relationship between utopia and…
New in paperback: Master philosopher and cultural theorist tackles the founder of modern dialectics
Providing an account of the work of the European Marxist theorists, this book presents a framework for analyzing the connection between art and the historical circumstances of its making -…
In three parts, Jameson presents the postmodern problem of Utopia, attempting to diagnose the cultural present and to open a perspective on the future of a world that is all…
This wide-ranging work seeks to crystallize a definition of postmodernism. The author looks at the postmodern across a wide landscape, from high art to low; from market ideology to architecture…
Fredric Jameson is one of the influential literary and cultural critics writing. His ideas about the intersections of politics and culture have reshaped the critical landscape across the humanities and…
